Must List: Bullets Over Broadway, Buzzer Opens at ACT
What to do this weekend and beyond in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff January 28, 2016
Must Marvel
Cris Bruch Solo Show at Frye Art Museum
(1/30 to 3/27, times vary) The longtime Seattle sculptor and public artist, whose highly finished, self-contained monoliths and subtle, irony-laced smaller works have for decades discreetly responded to their often unsympathetic surroundings, is the subject of a solo show that also includes his recent photographic works.
Must See
Bullets over Broadway at The Paramount
(2/2 to 2/27, times vary) Woody Allen’s musical adaptation of his popular mobsters and showgirls movie comes to Seattle, with period songs and dazzling choreography by the great Susan Stroman.
Must Watch
Velocity Dance Center Presents The Bridge Project
(1/29 to 1/31, times vary) This unique series of new works, produced by Velocity Dance Center, challenges four of Seattle’s most promising emerging choreographers to create four new works in its studios over the course of four short weeks. Last year, the high pressure of the residency yielded some remarkable results.
Must Shop
Prada opens at The Shops at the Bravern
(1/31, times vary) The Italian fashion house will open a 5,100-square-foot, two-floor store at the mega luxe Bellevue shopping center on Sunday, January 31.
Must Go
Buzzer Opens at ACT Theatre
(2/3 to 2/21, times vary) Tracey Scott Wilson’s darkly comedic play tells the story of Jackson, a successful African-American lawyer whose life grows complicated when he moves back to his old but rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn with his white girlfriend.
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